Monday, July 01, 2013

Obama’s
War on Christians

The entire issue
of the June 2013 Whistleblower Magazine is devoted to Obama’s war on Christians
and briefly mentions Julio Severo. The cover story of this issue is “Obama’s
War on Christians.”

(A must-read for people of all religions and political
persuasions. The following article is just the tip of the iceberg of how
American civil liberties are going right down the tube under the present
administration.)

UNDER
OBAMA, CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE ‘EXTREMISTS’

BARACK Obama had
been in the Oval Office only a few weeks when his administration’s first overt
attack on traditional values conservatives was unleashed — a highly
controversial report from the Department of Homeland Security titled
“Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling
Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”

Noting that many
Americans were upset with the federal government for contributing to a major
economic slump, the report pin-pointed those most likely to descend into
radicalism and violence, even terrorism — namely, ”Groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as
opposition to abortion or immigration.”

That’s right — Not Islamic jihadists, but
conservatives, patriots and Christians.

Proposed
imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans likely would attract new
members into the ranks of right-wing extremist groups as well as potentially
spur some of them to begin planning and training for violence against the
government the report warned. “The high volume of purchases and stockpiling of
weapons and ammunition by right-wing extremists in anticipation of restrictions
and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary concern to law
enforcement.”

US War Veterans
a major danger to us as far as Obama is concerned!

Among the most
dangerous people, said the Homeland Security report, were those members of the
United States military who had defended American interests in conflicts abroad
and had recently returned home. “Returning veterans possess combat skills and
experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists. DHS … is concerned
that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in
order to boost their violent capacities,” the report said.

It went on to
accuse those objecting to Obama’s unprecedented federal spending free-for-all
of being racist, and further warned
that, ‘end times’ prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to
stockpile food, ammunition and weapons.”

Dated April 7,
2009, the document was made public only days after a similar report blasted out
by the chief of the Missouri Highway Patrol, compiled with the help of
Department of Home Security (DHS), linked conservative groups to domestic
terrorism. Specifically, it warned about people who might have pro-life bumper
stickers, or those expressing support for third-party political candidates.

It didn’t take
long to see the results. Within a month of the report, authorities in Louisiana
stopped a driver and detained him for having a “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper
sticker on his vehicle. Officers warned him about the “subversive” message it
conveyed. “Don’t Tread on Me” is a traditional American symbol from the
Revolutionary War period. The situation developed in the small town of Ball,
La., where a receptionist at the police department told Whistleblower she knew
nothing about the traffic stop, during which the “suspect” was investigated for
“extremist” activities, according to a relative.

As the American
Vision blog reported: “‘Liberals’ and other leftists have been calling
defenders of traditional American, limited constitutional government, free
enterprise, and individual liberty extremists’ since at least the 1964
election. Small town police misled by phony left-wing ‘reports’ are bad enough.
Federal government agencies and their armed agents under the direction of
leftist radicals are exponentially worse.”

The original DHS
report, issued under Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, resulted in
at least one lawsuit. Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the
Thomas More Law Center, said it was alarming that Napolitano never retracted
the accusations or apologized to those identified in the report as possible
terror dangers.

Thompson noted
that the report also targeted as
“potential terrorists” Americans who oppose abortion, same-sex marriage,
restrictions on firearms, lax immigration laws and policies of President Obama
regarding immigration, citizenship and the expansion of social programs, as
well as those who oppose continuation of free trade agreements, are suspicious
of foreign regimes, fear communist dictatorships and oppose a “one world”
government.

It turns out the
basis for the inflammatory DHS report was primarily online chat. According to
data gleaned by Americans for Limited Government through a Freedom of
Information Act request, one of the government report’s sources was “a
frighteningly kooky website” that included a story about a scientist destroying
a radio to God. Another suspect source was the Southern Poverty Law Center, an
organization which later was itself tied to domestic terrorism (in an
imaginative interpretation of the law).

Since then, the
Obama administrations attacks on conservatives and Christians have just
continued to grow.

Among the many
developments:

* The U.S.
Census Bureau banned from its list of “partners” those groups that oppose lax
immigration standards

* A tea party
member who was writing letters to his elected representatives in opposition to
massive government spending under Obama’s leadership reported he was
investigated as a terrorist by the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI!

* Blogger Dennis
Loo at Salon.com revealed that the Department of Defense taught in a seminar
that “certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to lower level
terrorism.” The details were cited from an ACLU letter highlighting
controversial DoD information disseminated in seminars. For example, DoD’s “Annual
Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training for 2009″ asked which was “an
example of low-level terrorism?” The
correct answer was “protests.”

* A lawsuit took
issue with the Veterans Administration practice of placing any veteran seeking
help with managing financial benefits and provisions designated for a
disability on the nations registry of those not permitted to possess firearms.

* Shortly after
Obama called for a “national civilian security force” that would be as big and
well-funded as the U.S. military, a report from the Rand Corp. recommended
using the U.S. Marshals Service to create a “Stability Police Force” inside the
United States

* A Colorado-based
center that coordinated investigative efforts confirmed that federal agents
distributed brochures to farm supply stores, gun shops and others warning that,
“potential indicators” of terrorism included “paying with cash” or making
“extreme religious statements.” Also buying “Meals Ready to Eat” or “night
flashlights” made a person a suspect.

* In 2012, a
congressional investigation revealed that the nations many anti-terrorism
“fusion centers,” set up by the federal government to join local, state and
federal investigations, probably have violated Americans’ privacy, issued
reports that were outdated by the time they were released and wasted tax money
by giving away SUVs.

* A West Point study released early this year, titled
“Challenges from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right,”
links pro-life leaders to terrorism. Author Arie Perliger wrote, “The
anti-abortionists have been extremely productive during the last two decades,
amassing 227 attacks, many of them perpetrated without the responsible
perpetrators identified or caught.”

* The inspector
general for the Department of Justice admitted in a report that the Civil
Rights Division of one of the most powerful organizations in the federal
government displayed a widespread hostility to protecting the civil rights of
whites!

* Members of
Congress this year were astonished that the U.S. Army Reserve would use a
training brief that slams Catholics, evangelical Christians and others. The training seminar taught soldiers that
evangelical Christians are an extremist threat to America along with groups
such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ku Klux Klan and al-Qaida. The
anti-Christian training seminar issue came to the attention of authorities when
one Christian serviceman objected to the presentation.

Bob Unruh has been an editor for World Net Daily (WND) and
Whistleblower since 2006, after working nearly three decades for the Associated
Press and several Upper Midwest newspapers.